Australia :Missing 4-year-old girl found alive

[arista]

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This has been on the news since
the 16th of October.
Some Great News for the family.

[A four-year-old girl missing for
18 days in a remote part of Western Australia
has been found alive and well
in a locked house, police have said.
Cleo Smith disappeared from her family's
tent at a campsite near the town
of Carnarvon on 16 October,
triggering a massive search effort.
Police smashed their way into a locked house
in Carnarvon at 01:00 local time, where they found her.

A 36-year-old man from Carnarvon
is in custody and being questioned by police.

"A police team broke their way into
a locked house... They found little Cleo
in one of the rooms,"
Western Australian Deputy Commissioner
Col Blanch said in a statement on Wednesday.
"One of the officers picked her up into
his arms and asked her 'What's your name?'
She said 'My name is Cleo'," he added.

The four-year-old has now been
reunited with her parents,
who had made desperate and
emotional pleas for Cleo's return
since she vanished.

"Our family is whole again,"
Ellie Smith, Cleo's mother wrote on Instagram.]


[Australian PM Scott Morrison,
who is now heading home after being
in Scotland for the COP26 climate summit,
tweeted that it was "wonderful, relieving news".]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-59143494

[Merry Mockmas]

Great news.

[Holly Christmas]

Amazing news. Thank God. X

[Alf]

Hopefully she's too young to understand and she doesn't suffer from long term trauma.

Great news!

[ChristmasNeeve]

Fantastic news, stories like these don't usually end up with a good ending. Hopefully like Alf said she won't be too traumitized by the experience

[michael21]

Good news

[Cherry Christmas]

She was missing for over a fortnight, what a nightmare for her family, hope she is okay as Alf says

[arista]

She was missing for over a fortnight, what a nightmare for her family, hope she is okay as Alf says


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/11/03/12/49990225-10159853-Cleo_was_pictured_smiling_and_waving_for_the_camer a_from_a_hospi-a-1_1635941834590.jpg
[Cleo was pictured smiling and waving
for the camera from a hospital bed while
eating an ice lolly as mother Ellie Smith's
hand rested on her leg (bottom right)
in the first image of her since she went
missing on October 16]

[Nicky91]

it's good that she's smiling

let's hope she hasn't got any long term trauma from this kidnapping indeed



amazing she was found in time



i don't want to think what that creep might've done to her, makes me sick only thinking about that

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/11/03/12/50000443-10159853-image-m-10_1635941885982.jpg
[A 36-year-old man has been arrested
in connection with Cleo's disappearance.
He has not yet been named,
but was pictured being taken
to hospital with a bandaged head
after he injured his head while in his cell]




[Incredible moment
'Australia's Maddie' Cleo Smith, four,
was rescued by police from rundown
home of a 'childless loner',36
18 DAYS after vanishing from her family's tent
47 miles away: Suspect is pictured after
suffering head injury in custody

Cleo Smith, four, has been found alive 18 days after
going missing from remote campsite in Western Australia
Video captured the moment cops found her
locked inside a house a seven minute drive
from her family home
'We're going to take you to see
your mummy and daddy, OK?' a detective
can be heard telling the girl
Cleo was then pictured smiling and waving
from a hospital bed after being reunited
with her parents
A 36-year-old man, who police have
not identified, has since been arrested
and is expected to be charged]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10159853/Incredible-moment-Australias-Maddie-Cleo-Smith-four-rescued-police.html

[bots]

it's amazing she is free and alive. The guy can rot in hell

[Christmas Lights]

Hopefully there's no internal injuries , I saw this news story this morning and she looks ok. So glad she's been found.

[Tinsel Toes]

This is such an uplifting story ! because so many times there is is a very sad end , its so good but has this bloke been beaten up in custody ? Not helpful even if he 'deserves' it ! The courts need to deal with this man not the police .

[Rustic bauble]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/11/03/12/49990225-10159853-Cleo_was_pictured_smiling_and_waving_for_the_camer a_from_a_hospi-a-1_1635941834590.jpg
[Cleo was pictured smiling and waving
for the camera from a hospital bed while
eating an ice lolly as mother Ellie Smith's
hand rested on her leg (bottom right)
in the first image of her since she went
missing on October 16]

Bless her….so glad she was found safe and well.

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/11/04/04/50039325-10163711-image-m-119_1636001237497.jpg
[The Arrested Loner Man T.Kelly, 36
'obsessed with dolls and created social media profiles
of his imaginary family']

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10163711/Cleo-Smith-Carnarvon-abduction-Accused-Terry-Kellys-alleged-doll-obsession-amid-look-home.html



Kelly is still in Hospital

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/11/04/04/50039327-10163711-image-a-104_1636000491380.jpg
[Little Cleo was seen in her mother's arms holding
a balloon and wearing a pink summer dress on Thursday]

[user104658]

Amazing that this story has ended with her alive in all honesty, such a relief for the family but sadly they will be affected by this forever. He has still done something truly horrendous to them even if she wasn't physically harmed in any way. They're likely to be anxious to let her out of their sight, probably forever, but definitely for her entire childhood. Nursery, school, kids parties etc... none of those things will be simple for this family now as there will be serious separation anxiety and trauma (hopefully the girl is too little to be badly affected; I mean for the parents)

[arista]

Police have now Charged Kelly aged 36.